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Jakobson's functions of language
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<p><a href="/facts/Roman_Jakobson/qgzFg9eE">Roman Jakobson</a> defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of <a href="/facts/Verbal_communication/oQuamvf2">verbal communication</a> can be described. Each of the functions has an associated factor. For this work, Jakobson was influenced by <a href="/facts/Karl_B%25C3%25BChler/1IPBANG8">Karl Bühler</a>'s <a href="/facts/Organon_model/Cn5mnu3v">organon model</a>, to which he added the poetic, phatic and metalingual functions. </p>